[esotericn]

Taking a top-level view though, we've pulled about a billion different levers.

In the UK we've restricted the activity of healthy individuals for about 11 months now - the latest episode being an approximately 3 month period within which it's illegal to meet anyone else within your own home.

Psychological trials, even trivial things like filling in surveys or taking reaction speed tests are carefully monitored for ethical concerns, lockdown we just went all in on with no cost-benefit analysis.

It seems bizarre to me that in that context we should be worrying about the ethics of a challenge study with a few hundred or few thousand volunteers.

Loads of people I know have _already_ volunteered themselves for it in the outside world with no compensation and with no benefit to science because they're not able to mentally handle indefinite restrictions.